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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 111
Message ID: 6
#6, RE: typo? RE: GG 3/II: Fait avec Soin
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-24-20 at 07:26 PM
In response to message #3
>... clearly predated the autmobile..
>
>"autmobile"? typo or a French language thing?

Yeah, that's just a missed letter. Funnily enough, automobile is a loan-word from French (by way of Greek and Latin roots) in the first place! In English the preferred word was originally "motorcar".

>Anyway, loving eyrie since "Split Infinitive" was posted to USENET.
>:-)

Dang, that's going back a ways.

>This is your best stuff yet G!

Thanks!

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